Dear all,
The 2011 EURAM "Organizational behavior - new frontiers in the 21st century" Track and the Journal of Management and Governance promote a special issue dedicated to:
Flexibility:
Governance and organizational challenges and opportunities
Please, see below the Call for Papers for details.
We are looking forward to receiving a lot of interesting submissions.
Prof. Margarita Mayo
EURAM 2011 OB Track Chair
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Guest Editors
Luca Gnan
Professor of Organizational Behavior Faculty of Economics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy (luca.gnan@uniroma2.it)
Margarita Mayo
Professor of Organizational Behavior IE Business School, Madrid, Spain (margarita.mayo@ie.edu)
Susan Cartwright
Professor of Organizational Psychology and Well-being Director, Center for Organizational Health and Well Being School of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, UK (s.cartwright@lancaster.ac.uk)
Juan I. Sanchez
Professor and Knight-Ridder Byron Harless Chair in Management Department of Management, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA (sanchezj@fiu.edu)
Nowadays private and public organizations perceive the need to become more and more flexible in order to adapt their structures, mechanisms and people management practices to ever-increasing competitive pressure and evolving social and political dynamics. Anticipating trends and the working-out of rapid replies to these phenomena require strategic decision-making and governance processes. Although flexibility seems to have become an organizational imperative, economic and managerial theories offer relatively little insight into the process of becoming organizationally flexible and the consequences of flexibility for the organization. There is not a "one best way" that allows organizations to become flexible.
Scholars have often used the term flexibility referring to different meanings and positions. However, flexibility concerns not only the employment relationship – which is the focus of a large part of the existing literature – but other areas as well. Starting from an organizational theory point of view, on the one hand, theliterature considers flexibility as a practice that allows both to reduce costs and to adapt to the external environment pressure. On the other hand, the Organizational Theory literature connects flexibility to creativity, to speed and to value creation for internal and external stakeholders. Therefore, an argument can be made that flexibility has to be integrated into: a) the design of work processes; b) the design of organization structure; and c) human resources management. Accordingly, we invite submissions contributing to both theory and practice in any of these areas. Flexibility themes of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
- the reasons that compel organizations to become more flexible;
- the effects on governance systems, mechanisms and roles;
- the new practices used by organizations to become flexible and the organizational areas involved;
- the combination and the innovation of elements, resources and practices available within the organizations;
- the organizational changes that require the involvement of external actors, elements and resources;
- the human resource management practices, with particular attention to the recruiting processes, the quantitative and qualitative composition of their talent, and their allocation within the organization;
- the decision-making processes regarding choices about flexible practices and the role of governance mechanisms in these processes;
- the consequences of flexible work practices on the attraction and retention of talent.
Manuscripts will be selected for the special issue of JMG through the normal double-blind review process practiced by the journal. In addition to addressing the overall theme of the special issue, selection of papers for publication will be based on relevance, clarity and interest to academics and practitioners.
The deadline for submission is September 30, 2011.
All papers received will be reviewed subject to the Journal policy and procedures.
The Guest Editors for this special issue are: Prof. Luca Gnan (University of Rome Tor Vergata, luca.gnan@uniroma2.it), Prof. Margarita Mayo (IE Business School, margarita.mayo@ie.edu), Susan Cartwright (Lancaster University, s.cartwright@lancaster.ac.uk) and Juan I. Sanchez (Florida International University, sanchezj@fiu.edu)
The submissions have to be sent by e-mail to ALL the guest editors.